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DIY Homemade Vanilla Extract
If you haven’t noticed yet, I have this thing with making stuff from scratch. I love to know how everything is made and why it works the way it does. I find the messy process breathtakingly beautiful. Something about planting a seed, nurturing it until it ripens, then bottling my own food makes me feel […]
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Beautiful & Tasty Bottled Apple Pie Filling
Years ago, I shared a family recipe for my great aunt’s apple pie filling. It was my go-to recipe for as long as I can remember. I think I clung to it out of nostalgia. That pie filling was the only one my mom and grandma ever made. I just kept using the recipe every […]
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Instant Pot Easy Peel Boiled Eggs
With this whole pandemic and kidney craziness, I’ve been cooking SO much more than I can ever remember doing in all my years of motherhood. 3 meals a day plus snacks for 6 people- 2 of them being extra hungry big dudes takes a lot of time and food! Then add on my youngest’s dietary […]
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Miss K’s Raw Granola
If you’ve been around here for the long haul, you might remember 6 years back when I shared a “recipe” for my dear friend’s raw granola. You can find that old post HERE if you need a laugh! I use the word recipe loosely because at the time I didn’t have a way to add […]
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Great Grandma Madeline’s Zucchini Bread
For the last several years I have been trying out different zucchini bread recipes and not having a lot of luck. I had used the same recipe for years and years but couldn’t find it and figured I had somehow lost it along the way. I went through my family recipe books but still hadn’t […]
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Lunch Lady Peanut Butter Bars
When my dad was growing up, his mom and grandma were lunch ladies in the local school cafeteria. This was back in the days of from scratch cooking, where everything was homemade and nothing was frozen. Dad still looks back fondly on his memories of school lunch. How could he not with two of the […]
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Freezer Hamburger Gravel: Easy Meal Prep
Growing up, I spent a lot of time cooking and baking with my grandma. She says she doesn’t remember how to cook these days, but once upon a time that woman sure knew her way around a kitchen! My experiences mixing, chopping, and tasting along side Grandma taught me so much and I’ll be forever […]
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